Challenge Areas

Sustainability

Over the last few decades, there has been a growing global awareness of the importance of mitigating and combatting climate change. The Sustainability Challenge has the task of ensuring that metamaterial development does not come at a cost to the environment whilst also identifying how metamaterials can play an active role in safeguarding the future of the natural environment.

The Sustainability Challenge is divided into two main themes. The first is energy which is devoted to how metamaterials can be used within the entire energy process from generation and conversion to storage and improving efficiency. Examples of work in this theme includes RF energy harvesting metamaterials and using mechanical metamaterials to harness vibrational energy.

The second theme is environmental impact which considers the role of metamaterials in ensuring that the future of the planet is not compromised by human activities. This field encompasses a broad range of works such as using reconfigurable metamaterials to reduce the waste caused by needing several specialised devices, using the structural properties of metamaterials to reduce the size of products, or by designing metamaterial alternatives to rare-earth materials.

By bringing together representatives across academia, industry, funding agencies and other partners, we believe metamaterials can have an incredible influence in an area that concerns the entire planet.

 

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Lead(s)

There are currently 39 Sustainability members in our Expert Database

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Arseny Alexeev
Snap Inc. (WaveOptics)

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Mohit Awasthi
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur India

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Jean-Sebastien Bouillard
University of Hull

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Gabrielis Cerniauskas
University of Edinburgh

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Charles de Kergariou
University of Bristol

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Manoj Kumar Dhadwal
Technical University of Denmark

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Emelia Funnell
Ida Sports

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Chikwesiri Imediegwu
Imperial College London

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Kd M Raziul Islam
Ulster university

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Wai Kit Lam
University of Sheffield, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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Dimitrios Lamprou
Queen's University Belfast

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Hak Joo Lee
Center for Advanced Meta-Materials

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Gemma Leslie
Manchester Metropolitan University

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Iman Mohagheghian
University of Surrey

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Oliver Nelson-Dummett
University of Nottingham

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Joseph Palmer
University of Sheffield AMRC

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Mostafa Ranjbar
University of Strathclyde

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Katie Shanks
University of Exeter

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Shwe Soe
University of the West of England

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David Sory
Universirty of Oxford

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Mahmoud Wagih
University of Glasgow

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Raja Zulkarnain
University of Milan

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